Brian Helmuth
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences
Interdisciplinary with,
School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Contact
- b.helmuth@northeastern.edu
- 1 MSC
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Office
- 617.373.2059
Research Focus
Ecological forecasting and resilience of coastal environments
Research Overview
Ecological forecasting and resilience of coastal environments
Selected Research Projects
- Predicting How Fine-Scale Temperature Variation will Affect the Spatial Distribution and Temporal Stability of Species and Communities Under Climate Change
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Tide Gate Modulation of Wetland Function: Measurements, Models, and Decision Support for Best Practices
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Using an Energetics Framework to Forecast the Interactive Effects of Abiotic and Biotic Stressors on
Intertidal Mussels- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- A. Cryan, B. Helmuth, S. Scyphers, Ecological Design for Urban Coastal Resilience, In Handbook on the Resilience of Socio-Technical Systems, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018
- A.E. Bates, B. Helmuth, M.T. Burrows, M.I. Duncan, J. Garrabou, T. Guy-Haim, F. Lima, A.M. Queiros, R. Seabra, R. Marsh, J. Belmaker, N. Bensoussan, Y. Dong, A.D. Mazaris, D. Smale, M. Wahl, G. Rilov, Biologists Ignore Ocean Weather at their Peril, Nature, 560, 2018, 299-301
- X. Zhou, X. Ji, B. Wang, Y. Cheng, Z. Ma, F. Choi, B. Helmuth, W. Xu, Pido: Predictive Delay Optimization for Intertidal Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensors, 18, 2018, 1464
- R. Judge, F. Choi, B. Helmuth, Recent Advances in Data Logging for Intertidal Ecology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6, 2018, 213
Apr 09, 2019
FY20 TIER 1 Award Recipients
25 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY20 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different projects representing up to $900K dollars of investment in research.
Jul 24, 2017
Patterson, Fernandez, & Helmuth Awarded $300K NSF Grant
COS/CEE Professor Mark Patterson, CEE/COS Assistant Professor Loretta Fernandez, and CEE affiliated Professor Brian Helmuth were awarded a $300K NSF grant for "Tide gate modulation of wetland function: decision support through engineering best practices".
Mar 23, 2017
FY18 TIER 1 Award Recipients
21 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY18 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 12 different projects representing $600K dollars of investment in research.